Thursday, 3 February 2011

Learning from other openings

As part of our preparation we were shown a few of the thriller openings from other years, from these we picked up on how to make our thriller seem more realistic and what to look out for.

One main thing we learned from watching them was in terms of mise-en-scene we need to think about continuity and props. For example if we are filming over a couple of days we need to use the same costumes and props. Also in a few of the thrillers the props that were used were not realistic so it lost the effect of the thriller.This was shown by one group using a butter knife and another using a water pistol as a gun.

Another thing we realised was that a few of the ideas have been done before, like the pictures of the victim on the wall or the use of masks. In one the victim was being followed  in the forest and realistically, they would have heard the antagonist behind them (leaves crunching etc.), but in the film they didn't hear, which made everything seem quite unrealistic amd unbelievable.

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